MINT: GROWING, HARVESTING, PROPAGATING, & MAKING TEA
The smell of sweet mint is in the air, and the refreshing characteristics of this delightful herb fills the garden with bright green foliage. Mint grows well in many environments and is easy to maintain even if you don’t consider…
HOW TO BE LOW WASTE WHILE CAMPING
Summer is one of the best times of year to get out of the house and into a tent. Camping has so many great qualities, including being surrounded by trees, lakes, open air, and enjoying the serenity of nature. Nature…
CELEBRATING HOLIDAYS LOW WASTE: CANADA DAY EDITION
Holidays are loaded with entertaining festivals and fun celebrations with friends and family… drinking, eating, dressing for the occasion, decorating, games, and many more fun activities! Holidays can also be an incredibly wasteful time due to...
HOW COVID CONTINUES TO AFFECT WASTE AROUND THE WORLD
The recent Covid-19 Pandemic has changed a lot about how we live. It has affected human behaviour directly, changing how we interact with each other, what we buy, how we shop, and what we end up discarding as a result…
DIY BEE HOUSE
Bees are one of the most important and iconic pollinators, and they are in need of more habitat, food sources, and nesting locations. They are the pollinators of countless crops and native plant species, and carry out their job of…
PLANT BASED PACKAGING: AN ALTERNATIVE TO A WORLD OF PLASTIC
Plant-based packaging has been around longer than you may think. In fact, the first type of plastic invented to replace Ivory in the late 1800’s was a cellulose polymer, made from plant material. Somewhere along the line we went fully…
BACKYARD GARDENING & SUSTAINABLE GARDEN MARKERS
Gardening has been an activity practiced and enjoyed by humans for thousands of years. Gardens can make spaces beautiful and provide food for us, but this only scrapes the surface of how impactful gardening at home really is. Backyard gardening...
LOW WASTE SNACKS
Processed and store-prepared snacks are one of the biggest culprits for being wasteful. They come in lots of packaging, most of which is difficult to recycle due to multi layering and mixing of plastics used to make them. Packaging makes…
PLANTS FOR POLLINATORS
Spring! One of my favourite times of year, where the weather warms up, wild plants start to bloom and bud, and we begin to plan our gardens. Our gardens and what we choose to plant heavily influences wildlife surrounding our…
EARTH DAY: OUR POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE EARTH
Earth Day celebrated its 50th anniversary this year on April 22nd. And because of Earth Day, and the uniting of environmentally minded individuals, a lot has been accomplished in terms of environmental action in the past 50 years.
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